There Probably Is No God Presenting bad evidence hurts your case more than presenting none. One marble to represent all gods. But which one is it! Between the Torah, Bible, Quran, Tripitaka and Bhagatvad Gita we have plenty of examples of direct communications from God himself. Direct, allegedly unquestionable, proof…

A Disturbance In The Force Most religious beliefs are build around things and entities which can arbitrarily disconnect from the laws of Physics. This implies they are not build from the same law-abiding stuff everything else is made from, but suggest the existence of 'matter-that-isn't-matter'. This view is not controversial…

Looking for a fight Forgetting for a moment that no evidence has been presented to support any notion of God, most of the claims regarding the divine literally rely on supernatural infractions upon the laws of physics. Without it no prayer could be answered, no universe willed into being and…

Why History? An old ragged man, with a scruffy beard, grabs the arm of a student standing on the steps of his Alma Mater... It is an ancient Historian, And he stoppeth one of three.'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The university's doors…

For Auld lang syne In the book 'The Manchurian Candidate' of 1959, converted into a movie in 1962 and again in 2004, the latent American fear is explored that some day some rogue nation would be able to install his own puppet into the White House. In all versions of…

Where is everybody? In their essence there is one element that binds many or even most theologies together: the notion that mankind is somehow special and part of a divine plan. In that sense none of these theologies predict the existence of (or even allow the possibility for) non-human intelligence.…

A murder of crowds Antiquated animal group-names make great puns that can rescue a book or even a movie from oblivion. The 1999 'a murder of crows' being the most recognisable example. Other good detective-story alternatives could have been 'a cowardice of dogs', 'a shrewdness of apes' or 'a business…

Saying ‘sorry’ to the trees "You know, the remarkable thing, when you read the Bible, every archaeology find that has ever come forward has only proved the authenticity of the Bible" -Michele Bachmann Trees have value greater than your b*llsh$t. Dear Michele,we need to talk! My name is.. well it…

"Give us, us free" When Islamist terrorists strike a city we are all too prepared to declare ourselves 'citizens' of Paris or Berlin or even Brussels. This is easy. It is a lot harder to stand against the terror that is committed by an allied government. Rare are the facebook-declarations…

Torpedoes in the water When I accused them of having offices adjacent the European Union in Brussels, solely for facilitating covert recruitment of politicians in high offices, I assumed they would not hear me. It would seem I was mistaken! Screenshot from Cold-Waters, a well-known submarine-game. Pyrrhus was the leader…

Votarem! We will vote When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of…

I wonder what Marilyn Vos Savant would say Strictly speaking Atheism is just one of many MANY different world-views out there. This leads to the wrong intuition that it is as plausible as any religion or should even be considered 'just another religion'. When atheists counter this view they tend…

Humanity on the wrong side of evolution Atheist frequently consider ‘religion’ a sticky relic from the past and look upon the technologic present and the anticipated techno-future as if it contains the antithesis for it. But what if we are wrong to think this way? Representation of a simple neural-net…

In defence of Human Life on planet Earth I have defended the pro-choice side before. This time I hope I avoided 'drowning the fish' as one professor of mine use to call it. In any case the matter is so important and so acute and relevant that I felt a…

Declaration of Rebellion "When future generations judge us for what we've done, no one will be able to say we had no historical examples to draw from. We won't be able to say we'd never imagined anything like this could happen." From Daylight Atheism [caption id="attachment_647" align="aligncenter" width="670"] The Engraved…

A Silent Atheist Inside Scientology IX: conclusion With this conclusion I am closing the longest series to date and yet the work feels incomplete. I hope you have found it useful and may agree with some of it. If you agree with this conclusion please spread the word. It is…

Visiting the church of scientology In this episode I gather my balls courage and go on a visit, Inside Scientology! Internet image of the Brusselian COS building Far from the Rue de la Loi in Brussels Scientology also has a church which, according to the website has a visitor centre…

The 5th column As any cult-religion Scientology depends more on conversion-rates than birth-rates for replenishing its ranks. This requires them to make a choice: either lure in followers with a charismatic Bible-like story. Or: go after followers actively by increasing the number of opportunities to (preferably in an atmosphere of…

The Way to Happiness In this post in the series on Scientology we take a look at a booklet on morality that was also written by LRH. From it we may learn more on the thinking beneath Scientology and learn how this is just another way for Scientology to insert…

Scientology & Money: A bridge Too Far In this post of the series we dive into the financial part of the Scientology membership Going "Up The Bridge" of Scientology is often a Bridge Too Far. Whether or not it is true that Hubbard once admitted to having founded the Church…

Spider Without a Web In the end it was not so much the extreme-right and misogynistic stance you took that made me quit my allegiance to you, as much as the cavalier hypocrisy with which you circled back to it. When underdog cartoon people align themselves with the anti-social,…

Is Scientology a force for good? In this part of our series, in which we try to figure out whether Scientology is a force for good, we turn onto the core-organisation of the church and find out how she maintains such high levels of control. [caption id="attachment_576" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Internal…

Is Scientology a force for good? " The creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and arch." - L. Ron Hubbard [caption id="attachment_566" align="aligncenter" width="620"] L.Ron Hubbard's book describing his anti-scientific pseudo-psychotherapy.[/caption] Dianetics LRH wasn't…

Is Scientology a force for good? During the last half a century Scientology's self-portrait of a 'self-help quasi-religion' has been punctured to reveal some very irrational believes. In this post I attempt to shift the focus from their 'science-fictionesque' nature to their hidden character. If Scientology is a force for…

Is Scientology a force for good? This year, in 2016, Belgian public defenders lost a case against the Belgian leaders of the church of Scientology. The decade long investigation was thrown out because all the evidence either concerned offenses that had passed their statute of limitations or concerned the religion…